FACULTY SENATE

FULL MINUTES OF 14 NOVEMBER 2000

 

The third regular meeting of the 2000-2001

Faculty Senate was held on Tuesday,

14 November 2000, in the Mendenhall Student

Center Great Room.

 

Agenda Item I.  Call to Order

Bob Morrison, Chair of the Faculty called the

meeting to order at 2:10 p.m.

 

Agenda Item II.  Approval of Minutes

The minutes of 10 October 2000, were approved

as distributed.

 

Agenda Item III.  Special Order of the Day

 

A.  Roll Call

Senators absent were: Professors Holbert

(Allied Health Sciences), Summers (Biology),

Joyner (Education), Rigsby (Geology),

Lyandres (History), Wooden and Mustafa

(Medicine), Vice Chancellor Ringeisen, and

Varner (Administrative Council Rep.)

 

Alternates present were: Professors Twarog

for Arnold (Art), Spickerman for Tabrizi

(Computer Science), Jones for Watson

(English), Toppen for Davis (Industry and

Technology), Said for Pravica (Math),

Worthington for Cox (Medicine), Hanrahan for

Fiordalisi (Medicine), Everett for Droes

(Nursing), Pokorny for Tranbarger (Nursing),

and Reiser for Mooney (Sociology).

 

B.  Announcements

1.  Brenda Killingsworth (Business), Past

Chair of the Faculty, was given a framed

resolution recognizing her many

contributions to the Faculty Senate during

her tenure as Chair.

 

2.  The deadline for submitting undergraduate

curriculum proposals to the University

Curriculum Committee for consideration during

this academic year is 1 March 2001.

 

3.  The Chancellor has approved the following

resolution from the 10 October 2000, Faculty

Senate meeting:

#00-27  Revised School of Music's Unit Code

of Operation

 

4.  In order to make the section on "voting

faculty" easier to find in the ECU Faculty

Manual, Appendix D. an editorial addition was

recently made providing a notation on the

Table of Contents page and in the particular

section which details voting faculty (Section

IV. second paragraph).  This information may

be viewed on the web at:

http://www.ecu.edu/fsonline/appd4.htm.

 

C.  Richard Eakin, Chancellor

Chancellor Eakin discussed the recently

passed bond referendum. The referendum

received 73% approval statewide. All 100

counties approved the referendum by at least

a 60% margin, with 80% approval in Pitt

County.  Bids for the Science and Technology

building will be advertised in January;

construction should begin in April. Designer

selection for the Flanagan building, and the

Nursing and Allied Health buildings will

begin in 2001. As for expansion for the

Rivers building, bidding should be awarded

around mid-year 2001. The Chancellor

expressed thanks to Jim Hallock, Vice-

Chancellor for Health Sciences, who is

assuming another position in Philadelphia.

 

D. Phil Dixon, Chairman of the ECU Board of

Trustees

Mr. Dixon discussed the Chancellor search.

Interviews took place two days last week. Out

of the top 10 candidates, two have been

eliminated. On November 16, the Search

Committee may schedule more interviews. Dixon

stated that faculty are well represented on

committee.  Dixon stated that the recent

passage of the bond referendum should aid in

the search process.  Around December 1,

conference calls may be conducted for the

purpose of checking references. Around

December 14, another meeting of the Search

Committee should take place. Around January

11, the Board of Governors may consider

search recommendations at their meeting. One

candidate has left the pool. President Broad

wants the committee to forward three names,

unranked, for her consideration. Dixon stated

that although the advertisement states that a

Ph.D. is recommended, many search members

feel that it should be a requirement.

 

Karns (Business/Vice-Chair) expressed concern

as to whether faculty will have the chance to

meet with the final two or three Chancellor

candidates on campus. He cited the November

10 edition of the Chronicle of Higher

Education, where the final three candidates

for the presidency of the University of

Wisconsin at Madison have their names and

salaries listed, and that these candidates

will visit the campus to meet with faculty

and students. Dixon responded that a more

open search, at this phase, would eliminate

good candidates. Ferrell and Allred (Faculty

Assembly) expressed similar concerns over the

prospect that there might not be interviews

conducted on campus, or that faculty might

not be allowed to meet with the final two or

three candidates. They stated that colleagues

had expressed similar concerns. Jones

(Secretary) asked if there would be campus

interviews. Dixon stated that the committee

would make the final decision on that

question as a whole in concert with

candidates. Cope (Psychology) expressed

concerns he had heard from colleagues about

hiring a Chancellor that was unwilling to

meet with the faculty in advance of his/her

hiring. Hall (Psychology) asked about women

and minority representation within the pool.

Dixon stated that there were a substantial

number of minority and women applicants, but

that he could not be exact at this time.

Rosenberg (Faculty Assembly) stated that the

search process needs to be released to the

media. Sargent (Chemistry) stated that he

applauded the representative democracy

present in the search and that shared

governance can be taken to an extreme to the

detriment of teaching and research. He

applauded the committee for its work.

 

E.  James Hallock, Vice Chancellor for Health

Sciences

Vice Chancellor Hallock spoke of second robot

being used for teaching. A new foundation has

been created, the ECU CARE project from Blue

Cross-Blue Shield, with over 1000 patients

enrolled thus far. It represents a marriage

of robotic technology and indigent health

care. It should serve as a model for

addressing the issue of the under served in

health care. Dr. Hallock will assume a new

position in Philadelphia on February 1.

 

F.  Tom Powell, Director of Admissions

Mr. Powell provided the Faculty Senate with

information on this year's incoming freshman

class.  The original enrollment goal was

3000, and ECU enrolled over 3100 freshmen.

The average SAT score was 21 points than last

year's. The average for this year's freshmen

class was 1036, the highest ever for ECU. The

average high school gpa was 3.31, also the

highest ever. The average SAT for the UNC

system was 1030, with the average out of

state tuition at 1055.  Powell stated that

the major population growth for high school

graduates ranges from Raleigh to Charlotte.

ECU must work hard to attract people from the

Piedmont . Sixty-six percent of the freshman

class came from an area other than east of I-

95.  The Raleigh area average SAT was 1065;

the Charlotte area average SAT was 1038;  the

Fayetteville area SAT dipped to 1016. One

area of concern is the Greensboro and

Winston-Salem area, but the average SAT was

raised in those areas. For Pitt County the

average SAT was 1036, up 10 points from last

year. Nineteen percent of the freshman class

came from Pitt County. Nida (HESC) asked if

the Admissions Office was collecting data on

class rank. Powell stated that some school

systems have moved away from publicizing

class rank. Rosenberg (Faculty Assembly)

asked about other demographic areas. Powell

stated that the freshman group was 55% female

and 12% African-American.  Powell thanked

faculty for attending the open houses and

embracing potentially new students when

approached on campus.

 

G.  Approval of Fall 2000 Graduation Roster

Vivian Mott (Education) moved for approval of

the Fall 2000 Graduation Roster, including

honors program graduates.

The roster was accepted by acclamation. 

RESOLUTION #00-28

 

Agenda Item IV.  Unfinished Business

There was no unfinished business to come

before the Faculty Senate at this time.

 

Agenda Item V.  Report of Committees

A.  Admissions and Recruitment Committee

John Cope (Psychology), Chair of the

Committee, presented a resolution requesting

Faculty Senate support for International

Programs.  Rosenberg (Faculty Assembly) asked

about the demographics on international

students at other universities in the area.

There are 400 at UNC-Charlotte; 2000 at UNC-

Chapel Hill, William and Mary has 380, and

ECU has 185 international students. Twarog

(Art) asked for clarification on strategies

to attract international students. He

questioned whether the Committee was

advocating the development of an English as

Second Language (ESL) program.

Everett (Nursing) stated that it is difficult

to identify ESL resources for Nursing.

Theurer (Music) moved that the motion be

amended to read: "Therefore Be It Resolved,

that the Admissions and Recruitment Committee

recommends that East Carolina University

develop and implement strategies to increase

the number of international students.".  This

amendment was approved.  Palumbo (English)

moved that the motion be amended to

specifically advocate the creation of an ESL

program. This amendment failed.  Martinez

(Foreign Language) advocated against imposing

specific strategies and advocated that the

Senate focus on general strategies instead.

Spickerman (Computer Sciences) raised

questions about the revenue from

international students. Following discussion,

the resolution was approved as amended. 

RESOLUTION #00-29  (A copy of the full

resolution is listed at the end of this

report.)

 

B.  Committee on Committees

Henry Ferrell (History), Chair of the

Committee, first presented the second

readings for the following academic committee

charges: Academic Awards, Admission and

Recruitment, Calendar, Faculty Information

Technology, and University Curriculum. 

Niswander (Business) moved to postpone voting

on the second readings of the revisions to

committee charges until such time as all

committee charge revisions have received a

second reading.  The motion was approved.

Following further discussion, endorsement on

the revised charges for the following

academic committee charges: Academic Awards,

Admission and Recruitment, Calendar, Faculty

Information Technology, and University

Curriculum was postponed until all revised

committee charges have been presented to the

Faculty Senate for a second reading.

 

Professor Ferrell then presented the first

readings for the following academic committee

charges: Academic Standards and Honors,

Faculty Welfare, Libraries, Lifelong

Learning, Student Academic Appellate, Student

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Financial Aid,

and Unit Code Screening. The Faculty Senate

was given the opportunity to announce their

intentions to offer revisions at the second

reading of these charges on 5 December 2000.

There were particular concerns from Writing

Across the Curriculum charges and the Honors

Committee charges.  Both committees as

currently structured had representatives

(Clark from Dance and Hutchinson from

Anthropology) who spoke against combining

these charges into the Academic Standards and

Honors Committee charge.  Rosenberg (Faculty

Assembly) expressed concern about the lack of

attention to the wide variety of work and

responsibility assigned to individual

committees.  Ferrell responded that the

Committee on Committees has reviewed the

annual reports of all the academic committees

and noted frequent absences for committee

meetings.  Everett (Nursing) commented that

the Writing Across the Curriculum Committee

has worked to re-generate new resources and

make them available to individual units. 

Rosenberg commented that the university needs

to reward service in the role of the faculty

member.  Scott made note of an amendment to

the Libraries Committee responsibilities,

adding "4D.  The committee reviews annually

the effectiveness of library operations". 

Kester (Education) suggested that the

Continuing Education and Career Committee

name remain the same and not become the

Lifelong Learning Committee.  Rosenberg

(Medicine) suggested that the name become

Lifelong Learning and Continuing Education

Committee.  A number of additional comments

followed and were noted by Chairman Ferrell

and Ralph Scott. They will be reviewed at the

next Committee on Committees meeting.

 

C.  Faculty Governance Committee

Henry Ferrell (History), Chair of the

Committee, presented first a Policy on

Requesting a Professional Leave of Absence. 

It was noted that this policy was first

presented last month to the body and

withdrawn so that additional revisions could

be made.   Scott (Academic Library Services)

moved to amend the report by inserting "or

appropriate period of time for the School of

Medicine" to the report.  This amendment was

approved.  Following discussion, the proposed

Policy on Requesting a Professional Leave of

Absence was approved as amended.  RESOLUTION

#00-30  Following approval by the Chancellor,

this policy will be added to the current

Leaves of Absence policy stated in the ECU

Faculty Manual, Part VI. General Personnel

Policies, Section A. Employment Policies,

subsection D. Leaves of Absence.   (A copy of

the full policy is listed at the end of this

report.)

 

Professor Ferrell then presented an

interpretation to the ECU Faculty Manual,

Appendix D, relating to the meaning of the

phrase "spring term" used throughout the

appendix.  Following discussion, the proposed

interpretation to the ECU Faculty Manual,

Appendix D. was approved as presented. 

RESOLUTION #00-31  Following approval by the

Chancellor, this interpretation will be

provided with the ECU Faculty Manual, located

on the Faculty Senate website at:

www.ecu.edu/fsonline/interpretations.htm.  (A

copy of the full interpretation is listed at

the end of this report.)

 

Ferrell reported that the Faculty Governance

Committee had decided not to revise the

annual evaluation form to be similar to the

form for the Cumulative Review of Permanently

Tenured Faculty. 

 

D.  University Curriculum Committee

Rita Reaves (Academic Affairs), ex-officio

member of the Committee, presented the

curriculum matters contained in the minutes

of the 28 September 2000, and 12 October

2000, Committee meetings.  There was no

discussion and the curriculum matters were

approved as presented.  RESOLUTION #00-32

 

Agenda Item VI.  New Business

There was no new business to come before the

Faculty Senate at this time.

 

There being no further business to come

before the Faculty Senate at this time, the

meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Mark Jones 

Secretary of the Faculty                             

School of Social Work and Criminal Justice

Studies    

                               

Lori Lee

Faculty Senate Office

 

_________________________

 

FACULTY SENATE RESOLUTION APPROVED AT THE

14 NOVEMBER 2000, MEETING

 

00-28

Approval of the Fall 2000 Graduation Roster,

including honors program graduates.

 

Disposition:  Chancellor

 

00-29

Resolution supporting the International

Programs as follows:

Whereas,  it is the goal of East

Carolina University to become an

Outstanding national university;           

and

 

Whereas, national universities in the

United States have a substantial

percentage of International

students; and

 

Whereas, East Carolina University is

committed to diversity as widely noted

in the University Strategic Plan; and

 

Whereas, the present number of

international students (about 1% in the

fall 2000) falls short of the enrollment

of international students at comparable

institutions such as UNC-G, UNCC in the

UNC system; and

 

Whereas, the income from international

and out-of-state enrollment provides

additional revenue for the university;

and

 

Whereas, the current level of support

for the International Affairs Office

does not allow for effective

international recruiting; and

 

Whereas, East Carolina University does

not offer an English language program;

 

Therefore Be It Resolved, that the

Admissions and Recruitment Committee

recommends that East Carolina University

develop and implement strategies to

increase the number of international

students.

 

Disposition:  Chancellor

 

00-30

Policy on Requesting a Professional Leave of

Absence as follows:

A faculty member who is requesting a

professional leave of absence for one

semester (or appropriate period of time

for the School of Medicine) or more

should forward a written request to the

unit administrator.  The request should

include the reason(s) for the request

and the dates the faculty member is

requesting leave.  The unit

administrator will forward the request

to the Personnel Committee, which will

make a recommendation to the unit

administrator.  The unit administrator

will make a recommendation and will

forward both recommendations to the

immediate supervisor.  This procedure

shall be repeated at each administrative

level until the recommendation reaches

the appropriate vice chancellor.  After

reviewing the recommendations, the vice

chancellor will make a decision and will

notify in writing the faculty member,

the unit administrator, and the

administrator's immediate supervisor. 

(This does not include request for leave

subject to the Family Medical Leave Act. 

For a copy of that procedure, please

contact the Department of Human

Resources.)

 

Following approval by the Chancellor, this

policy will be added to the current Leaves of

Absence policy stated in      the ECU Faculty

Manual, Part VI. General Personnel Policies,

Section A. Employment Policies, subsection D.

Leaves of Absence.           

 

Disposition:  Chancellor

 

00-31

Interpretation to the ECU Faculty Manual,

Appendix D, relating to the meaning of the

phrase "spring term" as follows:

The sense of the Committee is to

understand the phrase to refer to the

Spring semester that ends with

Commencement exercises.  Therefore, it

is advised that all academic divisions

use the same dates for nine and twelve

month faculty when personnel issues are

involved.

 

Following approval by the Chancellor, this

interpretation will be provided with the ECU

Faculty Manual, located on the Faculty Senate

website at:

www.ecu.edu/fsonline/interpretations.htm.

 

Disposition:  Chancellor

 

00-32

Curriculum matters contained in the minutes

of the 28 September 2000, and 12 October

2000, University Curriculum Committee

meetings. 

 

Disposition:  Chancellor